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The source code plugin that I use on my blog is great, but does require that I insert some escaped tags with special class names in the XHTML.
For years I’ve used the InsertTagSnippet plugin by Coskun Sunali to help me write posts – but on Windows 7, it doesn’t work well without running Live Writer ... 10 Mar 2010
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I’ve adapted a syntax highlighting engine to generate a syntax highlighting TextBlock control for Silverlight. This control has built-in syntax highlighting C#, C++, JavaScript, VB.NET, XAML/XML.
In the future, once Silverlight 4 is out, I’ll of course make sure to update this to work with the rich text control to allow for copying and pasting ... 8 Mar 2010
At MIX 10 this year, Tues. 3/16 at 2pm: Learn from Jeff Wilcox how to create and maintain Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series applications using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework. 7 Mar 2010
Here's a simple application (and optional source) for a tool to allow you to quickly Authenticode code sign Visual Studio 2010 extension files (VSIX). 2 Mar 2010
I recently documented the steps to "code signing 101": acquiring a trusted cert/key pair, the process, and then signing an app. 27 Feb 2010
On the Silverlight team, I use this Visual Studio 2010 extension to keep my comments looking pretty. 26 Feb 2010
The AutoCompleteBox control I originally developed for the Silverlight Toolkit is now inside of the WPF Toolkit. 25 Feb 2010
Here are a few of the Visual Studio C# code snippets that we use on the Silverlight team when building controls and apps.
Download a zip (7 KB) of them all and extract them into your Snippets folder, which is in your Documents folder: Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets\. These also work with Visual ... 10 Feb 2010
I’ve seen many ways of grouping C# source over the years, but one that I never fully appreciated as being disgusting until this year was grouping like PMEs: public methods, protected methods, etc.
Sure, many source formatting guidelines (and perhaps even default StyleCop settings) suggest this grouping style. But, tell me: what is useful about this?
Here’s ... 9 Dec 2009
The November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit is essentially a tools and infrastructure release on top of the October 2009 release (where we first introduced Visual Studio 2010 support). It also adds a Silverlight 4 Beta version.
New infrastructure & test tools ship in the Silverlight Toolkit
There is a lot in the release that is joining publicly for ... 20 Nov 2009
The Silverlight Controls Browser sample app can now be taken out-of-browser. Here's info on that, plus how to get it done in your own apps. 19 Nov 2009
BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit. 19 Nov 2009
The November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit finally includes application library caching support to help reduce the size of your application .Xaps. 19 Nov 2009
It’s now even easier to get started with the Silverlight Toolkit, an excellent complement to your Silverlight development environment. The latest Silverlight 3 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is now available on the Web PI. It is now the recommended way of getting the toolkit.
Here’s a link to the installer, if you don’t already ... 4 Nov 2009
Here's a simple tool that I use to round-trip Silverlight solutions and projects between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta. Use it at your own risk, but enjoy! 22 Oct 2009
Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit. 20 Oct 2009
The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is out, and includes easy drag and drop components and an awesome Visual Studio 2010 experience for the toolkit controls. 19 Oct 2009
After using the Starbucks mobile card app for iPhone, I set out to create similar 2D barcodes in Silverlight 3. 30 Sep 2009
If you’re using existing imaging libraries with your Silverlight applications, they often represent a Color from the System.Drawing world in the full framework as an integer. An ARGB value is a 32-bit integer with the byte-ordering of AARRGGBB. Using some simple bit shifts and an extension method, you can have this functionality in Silverlight as ... 23 Sep 2009
The awesome online Sunday Night Football experience features the Accordion control from the Silverlight Toolkit. 14 Sep 2009
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